Inventors

1. The Raleigh Register
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92073042/ (history)
http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12318 (article from the paper)
http://www.historync.org/NCpapermills.htm (1809 papermills information)

2. The State Fair
http://www.ncstatefair.org/2011/About/History.htm (timeline and fairground info)

3. Holt Mill
http://www.textilehistory.org/HoltHosieryMills.html (brief history)
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/510/entry (William Thomas Holt info)
http://virts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mwellis/book/chapter9.html (history and facts)

4. Turpentine Production
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/103/entry (turpentine and naval stores)
http://www.hchsonline.org/places/turpentine.html (Turpentine and naval stores)

5. White Furniture Company
http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1961/61-2/white.html (history of white furniture)
http://cityofmebane.com/history.asp (tie White Furniture into Mebane history)
http://uncpress.unc.edu/nc_encyclopedia/furniture.html (furniture industry)

6. Cannon Mills
http://www.textilehistory.org/CannonMills.html (history of Cannon Mills)
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Fieldcrest-Cannon-Inc-Company-History.html(fieldcrest and cannon mills together)
http://www.historync.org/laureate%20-%20Charles%20Cannon.htm (Charles Cannon)
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/262/entry (James Cannon)

7. High Point Furniture Manufacturing Company
http://www.highpointmarket.org/abt_history.aspx (timeline and description)
http://uncpress.unc.edu/nc_encyclopedia/furniture.html (furniture history and info)
http://www.nccommerce.com/trade/industry-sectors/furniture/history (history and info)

8. William Henry Belk

http://www.belk.com/?cm_mmc=Search%20-%20Google-_-Official%20Site-_-Official%20Site-_-Belk
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waxhaw/pettus/wm_belk.html
http://www.historync.org/laureate%20-%20William%20H%20Belk.htm
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/364/entry
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=2033
http://www.belk.com/AST/Misc/Belk_Stores/About_Us/History.jsp
http://www.freeenterpriseheroes.org/heroes/belk.aspx

9. Proximity Manufacturing Mill (Caesar and Moses Cone)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_Mills_Corporation
http://www.proximityhotel.com/history.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847321,00.html
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Cone-Mills-LLC-Company-History.html

10. Pepsi – Cola
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpepsi.htm
http://www.sirpepsi.com/pepsi11.htm
http://www.pepsico.com/Company/Our-History.html
http://www.gono.com/museum2003/museum%20collect%20info/briefhistoryofpepsicola.htm
http://historyofbusiness.blogspot.com/2008/08/history-of-pepsi-cola.html
http://pepsibrattleboro.com/pepsihistory.html

11. The Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hills
http://www.outerbanks.com/wrightbrothers/
http://www.coastalguide.com/packet/wrightbrothersouterbanks.shtml
http://www.coastalguide.com/packet/wrightbrothersouterbanks.shtml
http://www.coastalguide.com/packet/wrightbrothersouterbanks.shtml

12. Mark Goodman and Goody’s
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/367/entry
http://www.goodyspowder.com/GoodysStory.aspx

13. Southern Furniture Exposition, High Point
http://www.highpointmarket.org/abt_history.aspx
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/american-style/furniture-making-in-america-history-of-high-pointretrospect-152371
http://uncpress.unc.edu/nc_encyclopedia/furniture.html
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/twentieth.html
http://www.northcarolinafurnitureguide.com/history.htm

15. NC Symphony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Symphony
http:///www.ncdcr.gov/ataglance.asp
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=175780

16. Vick’s Vaporub
http://www.vicks.com
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lunsford+Richardson&btnG=Google+Search&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncmuseumofhistory.org%2F&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncmuseumofhistory.org%2F
(This is the PDF that shows up first in the list of resources.)
http://www.srf.org/mission/history.php

17. Southern Power Company (now Duke Power Company)
http://www.southerncompany.com/
http://www.duke-energy.com/about-us/history.asp

18. Cheerwine
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/282/entry
http://www.blakescheerwineoldies.com

19. Texas Pete (Garner family)
http://www.texaspete.com/legend/index.php
http://visitsouth.com/articles/article/texas-pete-hot-sauce-winston-salem-nc/

20. Richard Gatling – First machine gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jordan_Gatling
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Gatling_Richard.html
http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/G/RichardGatling.html
http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/military/artillery/ordnance/gatling.htm